Example sentences of "you have been very [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been very unkind to Sarella , ’ began Peter . |
| 2 | It was some time before the detective found your address ; you 've been very clever in not meeting here , but it was careless of you to go to the same hotel every time , even if you did sign in as Mr and Mrs Smith . |
| 3 | You 've been very helpful to us , Darren . |
| 4 | You 've been very gentle with me , which makes it even worse ; perhaps if you 'd been more brutal I could have managed to stop … but then you would never be brutal . |
| 5 | You 've been very good to me . |
| 6 | You 've been very good with the children , I would n't deny that . |
| 7 | ‘ When you 've been very independent for a very long time , to depend on somebody else is n't easy , I find . |
| 8 | You 've been very quiet for a long time . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 've been very quiet about this , Dorothy . |
| 10 | And er of course in retirement , it 's unlikely that anybody will be paying higher rate tax , unless you 've been very lucky on your pension provision . |
| 11 | ‘ I understand that you have been very busy in Edinburgh asking many questions , poking your nose into matters that do not concern you . |
| 12 | ‘ You have been very kind to me . |